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London:: Privately Printed for the Navarre Society,, 1921.. 3/4 blue morocco; marbled sides; t.e.g.. Spines sunned; significant bump to one corner; light rubbing to extremities; tight and sound; contents fine. . 8vo,. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson..
The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais [Two Volumes] by Rabelais, Francis; W. Heath Robinson (illustrator) - 1904
by Rabelais, Francis; W. Heath Robinson (illustrator)
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The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais [Two Volumes]
by Rabelais, Francis; W. Heath Robinson (illustrator)
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London: Grant Richards, 1904. Hardcover. Very good. Two volume set, illustrated by W. Heath Robinson with more than 120 full-page black-and-white plates.
Title in full: The Works of Francis Rabelais Doctor in Physick. Containing five books of the lives, heroick deeds & sayings of Gargantua and his sonne Pantagruel, together with the Pantagrueline Prognostication, the Oracle of the Divine Bacbuc, and response of the bottle. Hereunto are annexed the Navigations unto the Sounding Isle and the Isle of the Apefts: as likewise the Philosophical cream with a Limosin epistle all done by Mr. Francis Rabelais in the French tongue and now faithfully translated into English.
xlii, 377; xxviii, 350 pages. Pages heavily foxed and tanned, as often. White cloth soiled; spines tanned. A decent, but not great, set.
Title in full: The Works of Francis Rabelais Doctor in Physick. Containing five books of the lives, heroick deeds & sayings of Gargantua and his sonne Pantagruel, together with the Pantagrueline Prognostication, the Oracle of the Divine Bacbuc, and response of the bottle. Hereunto are annexed the Navigations unto the Sounding Isle and the Isle of the Apefts: as likewise the Philosophical cream with a Limosin epistle all done by Mr. Francis Rabelais in the French tongue and now faithfully translated into English.
xlii, 377; xxviii, 350 pages. Pages heavily foxed and tanned, as often. White cloth soiled; spines tanned. A decent, but not great, set.
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- Date Published 1904
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The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais.
by RABELAIS, Francis. ROBINSON, W. Heath (illus.)
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THE WORKS OF MR. FRANCIS RABELAIS: Doctor in Physick. Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Sonne Pantagruel
by Rabelais, Francis. Robinson, W. Heath
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London: Navarre Society Ltd., no-date [1921]. First thus. Two volumes with nearly 100 illustrations by Robinson including the two frontis pieces. Originally published by Grant Richards in 1904 in a quarto edition, privately reprinted for the Navarre Society in this reduced (octavo) format. Geoffrey Beale (Book Collector No. 40) notes: "To those who think of him as a gentle humorist, perhaps the most surprising of Heath Robinson's books is the edition of Rabelais....To the unprepared reader, finding here visions of hell that are truly horrific, and a raw power and earthiness that is exactly in tune with Rabelais' narrative style, might well ask whether this is the work of the same artist." Shimmering blue cloth (Blanck's AA) boards with gold stamped lettering, design and rule; page top edges gilt. Spines toned (gilt still quite bright), light unavoidable offset to endpapers, small stain and tiny hole in rear blank volume I which has also shows rear hinge repair. Still, an altogether attractive set.
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